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weighing 5 cwt.) of which a part 

 will probably arrive in January, 

 and the remainder successively in 

 the ensuing months. 



From India a much larger quan- 

 tity may ultimately be expected; 

 but, as little, if any, of what may 

 be obtained from thence by the 

 means of ships which have sailed 

 from this country, can arrive be- 

 fore the beginning of October, 1801, 

 your committee have confined their 

 estimate, in this view of the sub- 

 ject, to that part which may be 

 sent from India in country or neu- 

 tral ships, in consequence of orders 

 dispatched from hence in September 

 last : this has been stated at from 

 7,000 to 10,000 tons, (equal to 

 from 28,000 to 40,000 barrels of 

 5 cwt. each.) The latter quantity 

 is represented as the most probable 

 of the two : and if sufficient ship- 

 ping should be disengaged in India, 

 it may arise to a much greater 

 amount. It seems, therefore, not 

 unreasonable to expect from that 

 quarter, in the months of August 

 and September, about 35,000 bar- 

 rels ; which added to the importa- 

 tion from America, will amount to 

 105,000 barrels. Each barrel may 

 be considered as more than equal, 

 in point of weight, to the flour of 

 all descriptions extracted from 12 

 bushels of wheat, but in point of 

 nutriment, to a much larger quan- 

 tity. On this subject your com- 

 mittee have already submitted to 

 the house the result of various ex- 

 ))criments. From the experience of 

 (ive years, at the Foundling Hos- 

 pital, it appears, that when applied 

 to the food of children in the man- 

 ner in which it has been there pre- 

 pared, one pound of rice will go as 

 far as eight pounds of flour. Many 

 other instances have been stated to 



your committee, where this article 

 has been extensively used, and 

 where the increase has been nearly 

 in as large a proportion ; and even 

 when mixed with flour, in making 

 bread, the produce of rice appears 

 to be more than three times the pro- 

 duce of an equal quantity of flour. 

 Your committee, therefore, think 

 themselves fullyjustified in stating, 

 that the quantity of rice above men- 

 tioned will (by adopting proper 

 modes of preparation, which are 

 now very generally known and 

 practised,) afford more food, espe- 

 cially for children of all ages, 

 than four times the same quantity 

 of wheat ; and may therefore be 

 considered as fully equivalent to a 

 supply of 630,000 quarters of wheat. 



The importation of Indian corn 

 has also been encouraged by the 

 prospect of a liberal bounty. The 

 excellence of that grain as the food 

 of man, cannot be doubted, as it 

 forms the chief subsistence of the 

 southern parts of the united states 

 of America.. The use of it here has, 

 however, been hitherto so little 

 known, thatit is difficult to estimate 

 either what quantity may be ex- 

 pected, or in what proportion it 

 may be introduced into the con- 

 sumption of this country ; but, as it 

 is also applicable, with the greatest 

 advantage, to the food of cattle, 

 hogs, and poultry, it cannot fail to 

 operate, either directly or indirectly, 

 as a valuable addition to the general 

 stock of grain. 



The quantity of wheat which" 

 will be saved for food by the pro- 

 hibition of the manufacture of 

 starch from that grain, will be 

 about 40,000 quarters. 



In consequence of the stoppage 

 of the distilleries, at least 500,000 

 quarters of barley, which would 



